The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24
PERSONAL.

Hon. Andrew p Wiswell of Ellsworth
was in the city yesterday.
/. f. Jeffords, formerly chief clerk in the
Post Office, is in the city.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company Of
New York has paid Horatio Clark, New
Portland, Me-, $2075.
Mr.. Harrington III. Whipple of Portland, is
conductor of the Perian Sodality of Har-
ward College, and an excellent conductor,
too.
Mr.. Clarence Burleigh, of the Kennebec
journal, will be married today at North
Sandwich, N. H., to Miss Sadie Quimby OF
that place.
At Dartmouth Medical School the degree
of Nj. d. has been conferred on w. II. II
Briggs, G. NJ. Coolidge, j. l.. Curtis, W. w
Hurd, B. F. Marshall, A. Millett, and A. 5.
Sawyer, all of Maine.
Edward F. Searles of New York, who was
lately married to Mrs. Hopkins, the richest
woman in the country, was formerly music
teacher and dealer in musical instruments in
Gardiner, Me.
In anticipation of the wedding-which oc-
ours today-of Mr.. Leroy l.. Hight, the new
classical teacher in the High School, his pu-
pills yesterday presented him with fine pic
ture of the Players Scene in Hamlet, ele-
gantly framed.
Benjamin b. Clay, Esq, of Gardiner, who
is 10 remove to Minneapolis, last Wednesday
received a gold-headed cane from some OF
his professional and business associates.
The presentation was madein Mayor Berry's
Office.
Hon. Ii. K. Bradbury of Salmon Falls,
Hollis, has gone to Santa Barbara, Cal. His
mother, aged 92 years, and his son went
with him, to spend the winter there. Mr..
Bradbury is the owner Of two large hotels at
that place.
Deputy Commissioner Campbell has just
returned from trip among the mills in Bid
deford, Saeo and Westbrook. On this trip
he removed from the mills certain children
who were under age. Mr.. Campbell reports
Ia general and willing compliance with the
law.
Hon. VIM. w. Thomas, Jr., will attend the
monthly supper of the Portland Club (of
which he is member, next Monday even
ing, and has accepted an invitation to speak
on that occasion. Speaker Littlefield, of
Rockland, has also signifed his intention of
being present at the meeting Of the Club on
that evening
Major c. ii. Boyd, sof the United States
Coast Survey, has just finished an extended
trip in Eastern Maine and the Provinces.
He has been engaged in connecting the pri-
mary triangulation of the coast along the
line of the st. Croix river and boundary
lake, with the initial monument" Of the
northeastern boundary survey at the head
waters Of the st. Crolx.
Capt. Appleton Oaksmith, son of Mrs.
Elizabeth Cakes smith, anative Of Portland,
died in New York, Oct. 26th. The Weekly
Record of Beaufort, N. c., publishes the
proceedings of the Masonic lodge in that
city. to which he belonged. Ample testimo-
nv is borne to the virtues of the deceased.
He will be remembered by many friends in
this vicinity.
Mr.. Byron I. King, Portlander, who
went away from this city when a boy, Is
now a leading dry goods merchant and capi-
talist of Springfield, Missouri. He is also
writer Of established repute, and fine poems
from his pen have frequently appeared IN
papers of Missouri and Tennessee. His first
poem was published in the Portland Tran
script in 1859, and was entitled "Whose?'
Mr.. King married a southern lady of great
beauty and wealth.